The aim of this research was to know how the Competency-Based Education (CBE) approach is represented by professors who are part of the professional education of psychologists, and the challenges and implications of, in their opinion, incorporating it in the classroom practice. Therefore, a research was conducted to know the type of representations and meanings that they give to the approach for its approval or rejection, whether they apply it in their teaching practice, and the kind of competencies that thThe aim of this research was to know how the Competency-Based Education (CBE) approach is represented by professors who are part of the professional education of psychologists, and the challenges and implications of, in their opinion, incorporating it in the classroom practice. Therefore, a research was conducted to know the type of representations and meanings that they give to the ap...

The aim of this research was to know how the Competency-Based Education (CBE) approach is represented by professors who are part of the professional education of psychologists, and the challenges and implications of, in their opinion, incorporating it in the classroom practice. Therefore, a research was conducted to know the type of representations and meanings that they give to the approach for its approval or rejection, whether they apply it in their teaching practice, and the kind of competencies that thThe aim of this research was to know how the Competency-Based Education (CBE) approach is represented by professors who are part of the professional education of psychologists, and the challenges and implications of, in their opinion, incorporating it in the classroom practice. Therefore, a research was conducted to know the type of representations and meanings that they give to the ap...

The adoption of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in education has changed the ways of communicating and building knowledge and produced new teaching and learning environments in recent years, but although they have been an indispensable component of curricular innovation, they have not had the expected impact on improving education. In this sense, the purpose of the research reported was to investigate the representations and meanings that teachers who participate in processes of teaching and learning psychology hold about ICTs and the experience they have in using them in their teaching practice. A descriptive and interpretative type of research was carried out based on a qualitative methodology, in which a semi-structured interview was applied to teachers who teach psychology contents in higher education institutions, both public and private, in the metropolitan area o...

La adopción de lasTecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación (TIC) en la educación ha cambiado las formas de comunicación y construcción del conocimiento y producido nuevos entornos de enseñanza y aprendizaje en los últimos años, pero aunque han sido un componente indispensable de innovación curricular, no han tenido el impacto previsto en el mejoramiento de la educación, por lo que se señala la necesidad de indagar porqué las innovaciones por sí mismas no facultan a los profesores en los cambios requeridos. En tal sentido, el propósito de la investigación que se reporta fue indagar las representaciones y significados que docentes que participan en procesos de enseñanza y aprendizaje de la psicología sostienen acerca de las TIC y la experiencia que tienen al emplearlas en su práctica docente. Se realizó una investigación de tipo descriptiva e interpretativa a p...